Quality Magazine

Quality July 2020

2020 July

Check out the July 2020 edition of Quality: the road to automotive light-weighting, handheld XRF, mechanical testing, automated GD&T extraction, vision & sensors and much more!

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An R&R Study

In most situations, you're likely to be surprised by the amount of R&R error detected.
Paul Keller
June 30, 2020
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For most processes, we have a choice of measurement options that vary with cost. Ideally, we seek the most accurate measurement at the lowest cost with the expectation that the result will be satisfactory. When measurements are critical to operations, we should validate these assumptions.


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The Current State of Thickness Measurement

Optical measurement tools are picking jp steam, experts say.
Genevieve Diesing
June 29, 2020
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Thickness measurement is the gauging of coatings or films on surfaces—such as paint on metal parts. Manufacturers are increasingly using thinner and higher-performance coatings these days, with tighter applied thickness tolerances and an increasing need for more accurate and precise tools.


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Columns

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Face of Quality

Process Improvement

Most problems result from management systems.
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Jim L. Smith
June 30, 2020
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Almost all organizations set performance targets for departments and/or individuals to conduct their operations and to deliver products and services to their customers. Although managers attempt to ensure their processes can handle all the issues that may arise in their business, in today’s complex world, these processes often fall short.


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Guest Column

The Unfolding Course of Events

Looking to the past provides some perspective.
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Michelle Bangert
June 30, 2020
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Erik Larson’s latest book begins with this quote. If you’ve ever read a book about a serial killer and the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, the last crossing of the Lusitania, an American family in Hitler’s Berlin, the inventor of wireless and Britain’s second most famous murderer, or the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, you may be familiar with Erik Larson.


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Other Dimensions

Training

What's the answer for today's training needs?
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Hill Cox
June 30, 2020
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I was chatting with a colleague recently, a well-known supplier of precision measuring instruments. I noted, sarcastically, that his company was promoting a half-day training seminar on calibration and best of all—it was free! 


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Speaking of Quality

Developing Skills while Giving Back

ASQ's core strength is its local presence.
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Jim Spichiger
June 30, 2020
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President John F. Kennedy famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” This was his challenge to every American citizen to contribute in some way to the public good.


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Speaking of Quality

Inspection in Quality 4.0

Digitization and automation will ensure better quality.
Ben Tomic
June 25, 2020
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Today’s world has never been more dynamic, and it’s constantly changing at an accelerated rate by adopting more advanced technologies. Industry 4.0 refers to these accelerated changes to the way we live, work, and communicate.


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Vision & Sensors

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Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection

Adopting a hybrid approach that marries classic and machine learning techniques for quality inspection can simplify deployment.
Ed Goffin
June 30, 2020
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most hyped technologies of recent years, and while it promises new cost and process benefits for inspection applications, deployment remains a challenge.


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Machine Vision Frame-by-Frame

Once written off as old tech, the frame grabber has become a necessary, dynamic component of industrial inspection.
Donal Waide
June 30, 2020
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Frame grabbers are essential components in machine vision systems that provide ultra high-speed, high-data image capture from one camera or multiple cameras simultaneously. 


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Vision & Sensors

Achieving higher levels of quality consciousness with Traceability 4.0

Success in building the factory of the future depends on manufacturers reimagining and broadening their investment in an operational stragety that's been around for decades.
Kenta Yamakawa Andy Zosel
June 25, 2020
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Before the vast majority of manufacturers can successfully adopt the technologies and capabilities that industry experts have collectively labeled “Industry 4.0,” some serious work needs to be done. 


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Aerospace

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Computed Tomography: Back to Basics

Computed tomography is a powerful nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technique for both 2D and 3D cross-sectional images of an object from X-ray images.
Rahul Alreja
July 1, 2020
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Every business or service today has some form of quality control or quality assurance. With such high market competition, quality has become the market differentiator for almost all products and services.


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A New Angle on Aerospace FSW Inspections

The most effective inspection method for friction stir weld flaws is phased array ultrasound.
Daniel Richard
July 1, 2020
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Friction stir weld (FSW) inspections in aerospace manufacturing are challenging for ultrasound technicians not necessarily because they require specialized computations or complex techniques but because scanning with conventional probe setups can be so time consuming.


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Nadcap Nondestructive Testing Special Process Audits: A Perspective

Numerous members of the aerospace industry are involved and provide input.
Linda Beene Mark Aubele
July 1, 2020
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In aerospace as in many other industries, nondestructive testing (NDT) is the final quality assessment, the final check of a part before it enters into service. Without a quality process and excellent technicians working diligently with a lot of integrity, the parts may just not be of the highest quality and fit for the job.


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